Before the resin has hardened, screw a one-inch mahogany keel strip along the centerline.

The ACT also has a small strip of territory around the southern end of the Beecroft Peninsula, which is the northern headland of Jervis Bay.

Ironically, this highly irregular policy ( along with the subsequent fame of Frank Frazetta ) has led to the misconception that his strip was " ghosted " by other hands.

A green flash was added to the socks, which from 1938 became a green turnover ( although on blue socks thus eliminating red from the kit ), and that has remained a feature of the strip ever since.

Watterson has kept away from the public eye and has given no indication of resuming the strip, creating new works based on the characters, or embarking on other projects, though he has published several anthologies of Calvin and Hobbes strips.

Dennis the Menace's famous ' red and black ' jersey had formed the colours of a few of the Beano characters ' clothes ( Minnie the Minx has the same, although the placement of the stripes is a bit different ; Ball Boy's was a vertical red and black ; Roger the Dodger has a chessboard design top, and Danny ( from the Bash Street Kids ) has a similar cap ), but they have changed for Minnie and Ball Boy ( Minnie at one point had a red and yellow top and Ball Boy's strip is now black and blue ).

The strip has spawned several books, an animated television series, a video game, and hundreds of Dilbert-themed merchandise items.

Adams has also received the National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award and Newspaper Comic Strip Award in 1997 for his work on the strip.

The fictional Elbonia has some visual and thematic similarities to the fictional country of Lower Slobbovia in Al Capp's long-running strip Li ' l Abner, where the impoverished citizens, who suffered under corrupt government, were perpetually seen in waist-deep snow.

Dogbert has been the ruler of Elbonia both in the strip and on the short-lived TV show.

The popularity of the comic strip within the corporate sector has led to the Dilbert character being used in many business magazines and publications ( he has made several appearances on the cover of Fortune ).

Earlier strips did engage in a degree of low-key political satire ( for instance, a series of strips in 1992 where Dogbert runs for President ), but since the early 1990s Adams has mostly focused the strip on corporate issues.

The strip has also popularized the usage of the terms “ cow-orker ” and PHB.

In addition to the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Awards won by Adams, the Dilbert strip has received a variety of other awards.

Doonesbury is a comic strip by American cartoonist Garry Trudeau, that chronicles the adventures and lives of an array of characters of various ages, professions, and backgrounds, from the President of the United States to the title character, Michael Doonesbury, who has progressed from a college student to a youthful senior citizen in the 40 + years of the strip's daily existence.

No symbol for Barack Obama has appeared in the strip ; the May 30, 2009 strip had Obama and an aide wondering what the reason for this might be ( off panel ).

Doonesbury has angered, irritated, or been rebuked by many of the political figures that have appeared or been referred to in the strip over the years.

The strip has also met controversy over every military conflict it has dealt with, including Vietnam, Grenada, Panama and both Gulf Wars.

Outraged at learning that black troops had been billeted in his house in Nashville, he nullified an arrangement by Gen. Sherman to allow an abandoned coastal strip in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida be allocated to freedmen for their agricultural use.

" In 1950, Capp introduced a cartoonist character named " Happy Vermin "— a caricature of Fisher — who hired Abner to draw his comic strip in a dimly lit closet, ( after sacking his previous " temporary " assistant of 20 years, who had been cut off from all his friends in the process ).

On November 13, 1977, Capp retired with an apology to his fans for the recently declining quality of the strip, which he said had been the best he could manage due to declining health.

Originally during his appearances in Action Comics and later in his own magazine, the Man of Steel would strip to his costume and stand revealed as Superman, often with the transformation having already been completed.

In It's Not Funny If I Have to Explain It, Adams recounts having been attacked for the alleged political content of his work, although in the case of one such strip ( where oil drilling kills a unicorn ) he excuses himself by saying " I just thought the image was funny.

" The Doctor initially assumes Davros's personality has been totally subsumed, but in the later strip " Emperor of the Daleks " (# 197-202 ) this Emperor is shown as a different entity from Davros.

The southern part of the Red Sea coast, along with the Red Sea coast of Djibouti, has been described as the Eritrean coastal desert, a harsh sand and gravel coastal strip covered in dune grasses and shrubs that is important as a channel for the mass migration of birds of prey.

More notably, the strip underwent stylistic changes with 1978 – 83 strips being more realistic, while comics from 1984 onwards have been more cartoony.

Davis quickly apologized for the poorly timed comic strip, claiming that it had been written a year in advance and that both his brother and son were veterans.

However, Hergé accepted an offer to produce a new Tintin strip in Le Soir, Brussels ' leading French daily, which had been appropriated as the mouthpiece of the occupation forces.

Firstly, paper shortages forced Tintin to be published in a daily three-or four-frame strip, rather than the two full pages every week which had been the practice on Le Petit Vingtième.

The Teen Bigha Corridor is a strip of land formerly belonging to India on the West Bengal – Bangladesh border which has been leased indefinitely to Bangladesh so that it can access its Dehgram – Angalpota enclaves.

The fictional British Secret Service agent has also been adapted for television, radio, comic strip and video game formats as well as being used in the longest continually running and the second-highest grossing film franchise to date, which started in 1962 with Dr. No, starring Sean Connery as Bond.

The Liverpool away strip has more often than not been all yellow or white shirts and black shorts, but there have been several exceptions.

Many familiar with comic strip history consider it to have been the direct inspiration for the Katzenjammer Kids and Quick & Flupke.

The Manchester United away strip has often been a white shirt, black shorts and white socks, but there have been several exceptions.

A few motels ( particularly in Niagara Falls, Ontario, where a motel strip extending from Lundy's Lane ( 20 ) to the falls has long been marketed to newlyweds ) would offer " honeymoon suites " with extra amenities such as whirlpool baths.

He drew the strip until 2011, when he stopped to concentrate on Dennis and Gnasher, though Trevor Metcalfe drew a few strips in 2003 and 2004, and there have also been some Robert Nixon reprints during 2005 and 2006.

In one strip in the Beano Book from 1957, his dad's name is revealed to be Bill, and he has occasionally shown to have been a dodger in his youth and on occasion asks Roger for dodging help.

Groening had been called to pitch a series of animated shorts for The Tracey Ullman Show, and had intended to present an adaptation of his Life in Hell comic strip.

" Comic strip historian Allan Holtz described how strips were provided as mats ( the plastic or cardboard trays in which molten metal is poured to make plates ) or even plates ready to be put directly on the printing press.

In the first strip, Pokey is described as an " educational children's cartoon ".

Comic strip historian Don Markstein described the work Swinnerton did at the Examiner and how the bears evolved:

It is straightforward to find algebraic equations the solutions of which have the topology of a Möbius strip, but in general these equations do not describe the same geometric shape that one gets from the twisted paper model described above.

Norman Mailer described the series as " a comic strip for intellectuals.

This strip is best described as the atmosphere of George Lucas ' iconic film, American Graffiti.

The New Republic described Annie as " Hooverism in the Funnies ", arguing that Gray's strip was defending utility company bosses then being investigated by the government.

The traditional style, involving visual metaphors and symbols like Uncle Sam, the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant, and labels is described as the " nast-y " style ( named after Thomas Nast ), and the more text-heavy " altie " style that tells a linear story, usually in comic strip format.

In more than one comic strip, Reggie is described as playing bass ( however, this is not necessarily canon, as storylines and hobbies / activities in the Archie world change from story to story ).

Brian Basset, the author of the newspaper comic strip Adam @ home, has sometimes described its more humorous aspects.

On 9 August 2012, the syndicated comic strip Doonesbury described Strayer's unusually high executive compensation as part of a series of satirical strips on for-profit education.

In addition to reporting Silberman's 2009 compensation ( which it described as fifty times more than Harvard's president ), the strip said that in the same year that Strayer spent $ 1, 300 per student on instruction, it spent $ 2, 500 per student on marketing and returned $ 4, 500 per student in profit.

Griffith described the Family Circus as " the last remaining folk art strip.

* In Berkeley Breathed's comic strip Bloom County the character Bill the Cat was described as being addicted to getting high from snorting Tender Vittles.

The Fraternity of Crocodiles are the main antagonists and villains of the strip, described by Pastis as " inept and inarticulate neighbours " of Zebra and while they are indeed on very poor terms with all five main characters ( with the possible exception of Rat ), they are usually involved in various attempts to kill and eat Zebra, all of which fail.

In a 2003 interview, Seth MacFarlane said that he had never seen the comic strip before, described the similarities as " pretty shocking " and said that he could see how Ware would reach that conclusion.

Daily News publisher Joseph Medill Patterson wanted an adventure strip set in the mysterious Orient, what Patterson described as " the last outpost for adventure ," Knowing almost nothing about China, Caniff researched the nation's history and learned about families for whom piracy was a way of life passed down over the generations.

The December 5, 2004 strip accurately described Krampus.

The Ivanhoe East area " blending into Eaglemont " is specifically described as " the area's more exclusive pocket " with " its own dedicated shopping village, which is much quieter than the strip shopping on Upper Heidelberg Road in Ivanhoe central ".

BosWash was described as " the megalopolis that will extend from Washington to Boston " along " an extremely narrow strip of the North Atlantic coast.

" Carl Barks described Raymond as a man " who could combine craftsmanship with emotions and all the gimmicks that went into a good adventure strip.

" Wheat described E Clampus Vitus as " the comic strip on the page of California history.

The chemistry of the Casparian strip has been variously described as composed of suberin.